‘Every day is a good day’: Detroit man freed after 27 years

DETROIT, MI – “Every day is a good day… I am blessed. I am happy to be free.”

After spending 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, George Calicut Jr. is adjusting to life outside, one day at a time.

Calicut, 56, was released March 3 after Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Bradley Cobb vacated his conviction in the 1999 killing of Virgie Perkins. He had been serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole…

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